The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-12-15
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
United States Marshal Dyer, as receiver,
has seized the Mormon church presidents
office, ledgers, books, etc, leaving soma
minor books, which he required James Jack,
the church custodian, to receipt for as re.
ceiver's agent. The church organization to-
night makes loud protest against this "out-
rage
The proposed demonstration In aid of the
families Of the executed Anarchists which
was to have been held in Battery ID, Chicago,
on Dec. 10, has been given up by its pro-
jectors, who feel that in the present state of
public opinion it would not be advisable to
hold it.
As the train on the Erie and Pittsburg
road drew into the depot, man and wife
and their 4,year-old child stepped from the
train to walk on the platform few
moments The child ran from tho platform
to the track as a freight train approached,
and everybody expected to see 1t crushed to
death. The members of the Vernona JAR
beau company were just boarding the tram.
Miss Jarbeau saw what had happened, ran
across the platform and first track, and sue
ceeded in drawing the little one away just
before the train rushed over that portion of
the track. The train passed SO closely that
1t threw Miss Jarbeau to the ground, but
neither the lady nor child were hurt
The third in the series of letters addressed
by General Master Workman Powderly to
| the Knights of Labor is published in the
Journal of United Labor, and is confined to
an attack on the Western Union telegraph
monopoly, with recommendation that the
| government should control all telegraph
| lines. The letter claims that the leading
journals of the country are united in advis-
ing governmental control of the lines, al.
though the ideas of securing and operating
them differ. The letter ridicules the argu-
ment that the establishment of the govern
ment system would be o new channel for
party influences, and proves the fallacy Of
the claim by stating that "the total number
Of telegraph operators in the United States
will not exceed 1900. They would not all
be bound to vote for the government candi-
| date any more than the employees of the post
office department would"
The Commercial Advertiser says that DR..
McGlynn is preparing to cross the ocean
next month on lecturing tour in the inter
est of the Henry George land tax doctrine
The Franz Brewing Company and the
Seller brewery of Sioux City, a., have
stopped business c. +. Hoyt president of
the Franz company, and r. Seller, proprie-
tor of the Seller brewery, say that they are
through with the business of manufacturing
beer in Iowa, and Mr.. Hoyt says he is through
with the business altogether The federal
questions involved in the rrohibitory law
having been decided against the brewers, the
men voluntarily withdraw from any further
contest against the law. Iowa is a prohibit
ton state.
A fleet of II barge. of coal,
and sunk seven barges of the fleet. Another
feet struck the sunken barges and sunk three.
No lives lost
The directors of the Baltimore g. Ohio
railroad elected Mr.. Samuel Spencer presi-
dent, and his salary, it is understood, was
fixed at S25, 900 per annum.
An accident more frightful in its nature
than has occurred for a long time, happened
at Waddell's mines, Pa. Ten men were
work.. when the drag became mis-
placed and the carriage on which
the men were standing jumped
out of the guides. Instantly, John johnson,
son of the engineer, and miner named
Monahan were hurled from the platform and
sent whirling down the dark depths of the
shaft, distance of over 400 feet Their
terribly mangled remains were subsequently
rescued and carried to the top. The terrific
concu sion also broke the legs of William
Boyd and John PLIGHT, miner from the
Hazelton region, had his back broken. The
other six men escaped with comparatively
slight injuries.
Two freight trains on the Pittsburg G.
Lake Erie railroad collided near Pittsburg,
q. LlSut cdlS ana all engine were COLL
pietely demolished. The loss was $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of London carried
away $500 as the profits of his lecture tour.
Nearly every body in the village of Penn
Yam, N. Y, has been jubilant because of the
finding there OF an abundant vein Of natural
gas.
A number of young women of Hammond,
Ind, claim to have been slandered by Editor
Towle of the Echo. Seven of the girls met
Towle in the street. and, throwing red pep
per in his face, three attacked him with cow
hides. The editor begged for mercy and
then threatened to shoot, but the girls only
Piled their whips the faster Towle finally es-
capped.
Tie officials in the Chicago county Jail are
in almost a frenzy of fear and uncertainty
over disclosures regarding the surreptitious
possession of contraband articles by the pris-
oners. The finding of the bomb in Lingg's
cell has never been traced to its depth. Nei-
ther has the person been discovered who fur
nished the several doses of poison taken by
George Engle Saturday last a calibre re-
volver and over 100 cartridges were found in
the cell of Michael Lynch, VINO had shot and
killed Officer William S. Halloran in July
last. 1t was learned that the latter
discovery prevented the carrying out of a
well-defined plot to liberate half a dozen of
the worst criminals in the Jail. Immedi-
ately on the finding of the revolver and am
munition, Lynch was taken from his cell and
placed in solitary confinement for over 100
hours, manacled to the cell door and fed on
bread and water. All details have been
suppressed by the Jail officials, but it is
known that the plan was to arm Lynch anda
number of the other prisoners, and getting
them into the lawyers cage, on some pre-
tence, have them all make combined break
for liberty, shooting down the guards if
necessary.